Sentences with phrase «fund issues our country»

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Diamonte serves on the board for the Committee on Investment of Employee Benefit Assets, representing more than 100 of the country's largest private - sector retirement funds on fiduciary and investment issues in Washington.

These funds invest primarily in bonds issued by countries with smaller, less developed economies, or by corporations headquartered in developing countries.

When market conditions favor wider diversification in the view of Hussman Strategic Advisors, Inc., the Fund's investment manager, the Fund may invest up to 30 % of its net assets in securities outside of the U.S. fixed - income market, such as utility and other energy - related stocks, precious metals and mining stocks, shares of real estate investment trusts («REITs»), shares of exchange - traded funds («ETFs») and other similar instruments, and foreign government debt securities, including debt issued by governments of emerging market countries.

In addition, in the new - issue market, borrowers in many countries have benefited from favourable funding conditions in recent years.

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The Green Partyâ $ ™ s previous strategy was to win as many votes as possible across the country to obtain more public funding, build toward future elections, and bring more attention to environmental issues.

The study by Chan, Covig, and NG in the June 2005 issue of the Journal of Finance concluded that mutual fund investors in all countries over-invest in their home market, and that the two factors that matter most are how developed the local economy is, and how remote it is from other countries geographically, culturally, or linguistically.

As their title suggests National Municipal Bond funds invest in municipal bond issues from all over the country.

Apart from the question whether there will be sufficient funding for all these plans, they also raise the critical issue of the appropriateness of the technologies transferred and the capacity of the recipient countries to master them.

Super funding of a military that destroys entire countries and it's people is another issue.

ESS, whose fieldwork in the UK has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), has collected data from more than 250,000 interviews in 30 countries over the last decade on a wide range of topics that tap into key issues facing contemporary Europe.

«While I expect this fight to continue, it is my hope the administration can put this destructive chapter behind them and focus on solving our country's important issues, including funding infrastructure, creating jobs for working - class Americans, and developing a meaningful urban agenda to tackle the serious challenges facing America's cities,» said Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner in a statement.

Two issues I can think of off the top of my head -(1) what if I'm an entertainment company and I don't believe my tax dollars should be spent on PBS, (2) The funding for this used to be spread out across the country.

This was an issue in the Cote d'ivoire situation where there were competing claims to the external assets of the country, in particular to funds at the Central Bank of West African States.

It is not an ideal world, so Labour did not sacrifice the party political advantage to tackle the thorny issue of party funding for the good of the country.

Besides, what's legal or not is going to depend on the country or countries considered and your questions touches upon several distinct issues (copyright, public funding...).

«It's my job to make sure the issues and concerns facing the North Country are heard loud and clear so that our schools, hospitals and economic development programs get the funding they need,» Jones said in a statement.

Mr Idris stressed the need for more funding if the issues of insecurity and other social vices in the country were to be addressed.

Governor Cuomo, with whom we have not always seen eye to eye on related issues, could realistically catapult to be one of the country's leading progressive elected officials on economic issues if the funds were used to protect New York's communities from additional cuts.

Since its establishment, the Vodafone Ghana Foundation has moved from just funding projects, to investing in developing sustainable initiatives that solve pressing social issues and benefit several communities in the country.

Stephen Doig, program director at the Rocky Mountain Institute, said in the phone conference that the solar pilot projects around the country funded by the Energy Department provide the laboratories for attacking the cost and systems issues.

The issue of curbing deforestation was a rare area of consensus at the climate summit in December in Copenhagen, Denmark, with six countries — the United States, Norway, Japan, Britain, France and Australia — signing on to pay $ 3.5 billion to fund the REDD + deforestation effort over three years.

But issues related to flat or declining funding are jeopardizing the country's leadership and creating challenges in maintaining long - term ocean - related climate observations, the report says.

«The important issue is imagining all the ways in which cultures created by multiple source countries rather than few source countries differ,» says Niedenthal, whose work is funded by the National Science Foundation.

Almost 10,000 people — 10 % of the PhD candidates in the country — completed the questionnaire, which both solicited census - type data and explored issues ranging from students» motivations in doing a PhD, to supervision experiences, funding situations, and what should be changed.

As an illustration, leishmaniases and other tropical diseases are often neglected due to the fact that the afflicted countries may not have adequate material or nonmaterial assets to support crucial scientific investigations, while researchers and funding agencies in the developed countries rarely feel the urgency to collaborate on such issues.

The immigration cap in many countries (e.g., in the US after 9/11 and recently in Switzerland as a result of referendum 2014 against mass immigration) and the issues associated with international mobility of research funds (e.g., corrupt bureaucracy in collaborating countries) affect science and research.

This is something which has been very well documented and mourned in a report from the National Academy of Sciences that was issued by a committee headed by Norman Augustine just a few months ago and this report — which is called «he Gathering Storm» — lays out in some detail the concern that that [leaves us] with a long hole over the next couple of decades, because of weaknesses in [the] way we fund basic physical sciences, the way we are training people to do physical sciences, the way we treat science in elementary and high - school programs — all of those factors, the way we pay teachers, the way we use the patent system where we try to provide incentives in some of the physical sciences; we are losing our leadership gradually to other countries, especially in Europe and [of] particular concern in Asia, where the rise of science in, particularly China, to a certain extent India and other parts of Southeast Asia, are cause for long - term concern.

Because science is global — i.e., global issues are truly global — there should be a flexible funding system in which co-PIs of different countries can share money, at least for research that has immediate social impact.

The numerous rules will address issues such as how countries will track and report their emissions and have them verified, all in a transparent way; how countries will be required to communicate their future emissions - reduction plans as well as their pledges for funding adaptation efforts; and if and how market mechanisms, such as emissions trading between countries, will be applied to national targets.

A second report issued today by Advocacy to Control TB Internationally, a partnership of advocates from eight countries, claimed that the four largest TB funding donors — including the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria — made it difficult to discern where they spent money on HIV / TB and whether the programs were effective.

Reckien's team, funded by the European Science Foundation COST Action TU0902, studied the response to climate change issues of 200 large and medium - sized cities in eleven European countries.

Kirsty Williams said: «I hear it often enough, from teachers and headteachers across the country, that time and funding is too often taken up by school maintenance issues, as opposed to supporting learners.

Issues with school funding and student achievement dropped North Carolina to 40th in the country in a new report card on public education, continuing a downward trend in the rankings for the Tar Heel state.

Given the evidence on where teacher supply and pay shortfalls are greatest, it is encouraging the new recruitment measures are tightly focused on languages, science, and maths teachers, and will concentrate additional funding in «challenging schools» or parts of the country with acute supply issues.

Current research projects involve a three - country study of beginning teachers and their responses to LGBTQ issues (SSHRC funded) and a high school initiative that uses storytelling to move beyond the discourse of sexual minorities as victims of bullying (Ford funded).

The timetable for implementation in 2017 is becoming increasingly unachievable because of the lead in time required to issue a second consultation, amend secondary legislation and calculate new budgets for over 20,000 state - funded schools across the country.

Now we have a president who «love [s] the poorly educated,» who makes up his own «facts,» who's never been accountable to anyone and intends to keep it that way, who blathers about «choice» as a civil rights issue — as have the two presidents before him; only he, with DeVos, the least qualified Secretary of Education this country's ever had, will do what none has done before, what most voters don't approve, legalize vouchers and route public funding into religious schools, thereby undermining another foundation of our democracy, the separation of church and state.

This fund is most appropriate for investors who are looking for exposure to U.S. TIPS but also do not mind having inflation - linked bonds issued by emerging market countries, which offer higher rates of return when compared to ETFs investing only in U.S. TIPS.

There are 2,290 down payment assistance programs across the country waiting for home buyers to apply for funds, according to a joint analysis recently issued by RealtyTrac, a real estate data provider, and Down Payment Resource, a purveyor of home - buyer assistance programs.

A country fund buys securities that are issued in a single country.

Most of these funds are larded with securities issued by heavily indebted countries, including the U.S.

These funds might hold some U.S. bonds in their portfolios, but they focus primarily on foreign government debt, such as bonds issued by European and Asian countries.

Dividends and capital gains on securities issued in the relevant funds may be subject to withholding taxes imposed by the countries in which each particular fund invests.

They control the monetary policy of the country, regulate the volume, supply and cost of money and credit, provide the country «s economy with funds, issue currency, control the inflation by price stability, and supervise the exchange rate.

JULY 26, 2017 — PHOENIX — American pet parents significantly underestimate the current pet homelessness issue facing the country, according to a new survey commissioned by PetSmart Charities, the leading funder of animal welfare in North America, and conducted by Wakefield Research.

In the end, the strong views of some countries, in particular the reluctance of the US and India to have mandatory emissions reductions targets, coupled with issues surrounding funding and technology flows to developing countries delayed the outcome.

For example, understanding that global warming is not a proven science and that there is no circumstantial evidence for global warming alarmism — which is why we see goats like political charlatans like Al Gore showing debunked graphs like the «hockey stick» to scare the folks — and, not understanding that climate change the usual thing not the unusual thing and that the climate change we observed can be explained by natural causes is the only thing that really separates we the people from superstitious and ignorant government - funded schoolteachers on the issue of global warming... that and the fact that global warming alarmists do not believe in the scientific method nor most of the principles upon which the country was founded.

«International donors must also ensure that human rights and forest sector reforms are guaranteed before any international funding is released to developing countries for their national actions on forest and climate issues.»

For China, the issue of bilking rich countries for climate funding has not gone away.